Plimoth Cinema

March 12 - 25

The Last Station

Rated R, 1 hour and 5o minutes

Fact and fiction converge in this talent-driven drama based on Jay Parini’s novel about Leo Tolstoy. The Last Station focuses on the marriage between Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) in its final years. James McAvoy stars as a young man who works for the couple, while Paul Giamatti plays an advisor to the writer who fights his wife over financial issues.
The film, based on Jay Parini’s 1990 novel, explores the turbulent final year in the life of the Russian writer and philosopher Tolstoy and his troubled marriage to wife, Sofia.

March 26 - April 8

The White Ribbon

Not rated, 2 hours, 24 minutes

Controversy-courting director Michael Haneke (CACHÉ) earned the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 2009 for this arresting drama set just before World War I. In a small German village, a number of unexplained accidents beset the schoolchildren and their parents. Though they at first appear coincidental, it begins to seem that they are not, in fact, accidents at all.

March 18

King Corn 4:30 PM & 7:00 PM

This film is not yet rated

Sponsored by the Winter Market Film Series.

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from.  With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil.  But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

April 15

Buyer Be Fair 4:00 PM, 5:30 PM & 7:00 PM

This film is not yet rated, 1 hour

BUYER BE FAIR: THE PROMISE OF PRODUCT CERTIFICATION takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, the USA and Canada to explore how conscious consumers and businesses can use the market to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through product labeling, with a focus on Fair Trade coffee and Forest Stewardship Council certified wood. BUYER BE FAIR is an inspirational and balanced television special that reaches beyond the choir to present the promise of product certification to a wide audience.

May 20

Good Food 4:30 PM & 7:00 PM

This film is not yet rated

Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest.  Small family farmers are making a comeback.  They’re growing much healthier food, and lots  more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms.

For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export. But to respond to climate change and the end of cheap energy, each region needs to produce more of its own food and to grow food more sustainably.

Good Food visits producers, farmers’ markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system for all.